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Interfaces That Disappear
With Tomasz Rek, interaction designer. Tomasz spent a decade designing medical device controls, where a confusing button can be a matter of life and death.
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Typefaces as Infrastructure
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With Marcus Lindqvist, independent developer. Marcus has run a two-person software company for twelve years without investors, growth targets or a single all-hands.
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The Sound You Don't Notice
With Priya Raman, sound designer. Priya designs the clicks, chimes and alerts inside cars, kitchen appliances and phones.
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Building Slowly in Public
With Delphine Arceneaux, architect. Delphine's practice designs libraries and community buildings with the people who will use them.
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The Repair Economy
With Kofi Mensah, repair technician & founder. Kofi runs a repair workshop that fixes around four thousand devices a year.
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From episode 48
Wood doesn't care about your launch date. It moves when it wants to, and the job is to design for that.
— Ines Calloway, furniture maker
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